Community Dinners // Cummings event
2023-10-24 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Massachusetts
Find community, process with you peers, and eat dinner at Hillel.

Dinner @ 6:00 pm

Food. People. Comfort.

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Challah For Hunger
2023-10-26 16:00 - 21:00, 2023-11-16 16:00 - 21:00 | Massachusetts
Challah for Hunger is a group dedicated to doing Tzedakah (charity) through baking and selling Challahs! The current flavors are Chocolate Chip, Cinnamon Sugar, Everything Bagel, and Plain. 100% of the proceeds go to Family Table, one of the largest Jewish Food banks in the Greater Boston Area.

Join us to bake, make new friends, and make a difference.

Sign up HERE!

Challah for Hunger - Challah Sale
2023-10-27 10:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-17 10:00 - 13:00 | Massachusetts
Are you hungry? If so, stop by the Campus center to buy delicious Challahs! The current flavors are Chocolate Chip, Cinnamon Sugar, Everything Bagel, and Plain. 100% of the proceeds go to Family Table, one of the largest Jewish Food banks in the Greater Boston Area.

Israel Book Club
2023-10-27 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-03 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-10 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-11-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Massachusetts
Students and faculty members will meet weekly to discuss readings from Aaron J. Hahn Tapper and Mira Sucharov’s book “Social Justice and Israel/Palestine: Foundational and Contemporary Debates.” We will allot time during the meetings for participants to read the texts that we will be discussing, so no outside reading is necessary. All reading materials will be provided, and discussions will be run so that weekly attendance is not necessary to participate. Feel free to join us whenever you can! Lunch will be served each week.

All are welcome! Please contact Professor Hedda Harari-Spencer or Skyler Goldberg with any questions.

Jewpardy Shabbat
2023-10-27 18:00 - 20:30 | Tufts Hillel-Dining Room, 220 Packard Ave, Medford, MA, 02155
Services and Dinner

Jewpardy shabbat is a chance to have a nice shabbat dinner with a side of Jewish trivia questions and lots of prizes!

Dinner, trivia, and prizes.

Join us for Shabbat services and dinner at Hillel! To help us accommodate you for dinner please sign up below by Wednesday at 10:00am.

Shabbat dinner is provided compliments of Hillel. If you are on an unlimited meal plan, or have the resources to do so, please allow us to subsidize your meal by using a meal swipe.

Schedule

6:00pm Candle Lighting & Services

7:00pm Kosher Dinner Vegetarian and meat options

Conservative Minyan Se'udah Shlishit
2023-10-28 16:30 - 18:00 | 51 Chetwynd Rd #1, 51 Chetwynd Rd #1, Somerville,, 02144
Join the Conservative minyan for se’udah shlishit (a Shabbat afternoon meal) and board games!

We’ll be having a light meal, playing lots of board games, and schmoozing. See you there!

Alumni Bagel Brunch
2023-10-29 11:00 - 13:00 | Massachusetts
Welcome back to Tufts Hillel!

Join us for a bagel brunch to network with fellow Jumbos and discuss meaningful ways for alumni to become involved in our work.

Medford Family members are welcome, and we will have childcare and kid-friendly activities on site.

R.S.V.P. to Diana Faust, Director of Development, at diana.faust@tufts.edu

We hope that your new year is off to a sweet start, and we are looking forward to seeing you!

Study Abroad Paperwork Party
2023-10-29 16:00 - 18:00 | Massachusetts
Putting off your study abroad applications and paperwork? Come by Sunday for some motivation and sustenance to get it done!

Drop by anytime from 4pm – 6pm to get some snacks, work on any apps and forms (or homework) and chat about the Kahal Entwine program and Jewish life abroad!

Community Gathering
2023-10-31 18:00 - 19:30, 2023-11-07 18:00 - 19:30 | Massachusetts

Cummings Fall Speaker Series
2023-11-01 19:30 - 20:30 | Massachusetts
Join the Cummings/Hillel Program for Holocaust & Genocide Education on for the final installment of its fall speaker series. Over dinner, hear from Placide Shema A27 about genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. Discussion will also include Rwandan history and context. Food will be provided and no RSVP necessary! Everyone welcome!

Please email rebecca.krauss@tufts.edu with any questions or dietary restrictions.

Fall Cooking
2023-11-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Massachusetts
Come make apple pie with the apples from apple picking and roast pumpkin seeds!

Everyone is welcome!

Shabbat Dinner with Ted Deutch
2023-11-03 18:00 - 20:30 | Tufts Hillel-Dining Room, 220 Packard Ave, Medford, MA, 02155
Services and Dinner

Tufts ID Required

Join us for Shabbat Dinner and a facilitated discussion on Israel-Gaza and the Current Campus Climate with Ted Deutch, CEO of The American Jewish Committee (AJC)

About our guest: Ted Deutch is one of the leading American Jewish professionals. Read more about him here.

Shabbat dinner is provided compliments of Hillel. If you are on an unlimited meal plan, or have the resources to do so, please allow us to subsidize your meal by using a meal swipe.

Schedule

6:00pm Candle Lighting & Services

7:00pm Kosher Dinner Vegetarian and meat options and Guest Speaker

Paint & Sip
2023-11-07 19:00 - 21:30 | Massachusetts
Your chance to socialize with wonderful people while sipping on mocktails and creating lovely paintings.

Painting, mocktails, good vibes, everyone is welcome!

First Year Bracelets, Board Games and Bissli
2023-11-08 19:30 - 20:30 | Massachusetts
All first-years are invited to a fun night filled with Bracelets,Board Games and Bissli

Come for five minutes or the whole time!

Shabbat Friday Night
2023-11-10 18:00 - 20:30 | Tufts Hillel-Dining Room, 220 Packard Ave, Medford, MA, 02155
Services and Dinner

Join us for Shabbat services and dinner at Hillel! To help us accommodate you for dinner please sign up below by Wednesday at 10:00am.

Shabbat dinner is provided compliments of Hillel. If you are on an unlimited meal plan, or have the resources to do so, please allow us to subsidize your meal by using a meal swipe.

Schedule

6:00pm Candle Lighting & Services

7:00pm Kosher Dinner Vegetarian and meat options

Yoga Class
2023-11-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Massachusetts
Come enjoy a yoga class with Tufts Hillel alumn Rebecca Warsawski.

Please bring your own mat, only a limited amount of extra mats will be provided. All are welcome! See you there!

Visions of Peace GIM
2023-11-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Massachusetts
Are you interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the goal of humanizing the existing narratives in the region?

Willing to expand your perspective through holistic approaches, historical analysis, and lectures from diverse guest speakers? Visions of Peace hopes to create a safe space for students of all identities, proximities, and familiarity with the topic to learn and engage in meaningful discussion.

Come to our GIM to learn more about the course, how your identity may impact your class experience, and an immersive trip at the end of the semester.

Lunch will be provided. All are welcome!

Alex Lederman Discussion Session
2023-11-13 18:00 - 19:30 | Tufts Hillel-Downstairs Chapel, 220 Packard Ave, Medford, MA, 02155
Join Alex Lederman, an expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to discuss the current situation and its impacts on society, politics, and Israeli-Palestinian affairs more broadly.

We’ll start with a short briefing and then open up the floor to questions.

Dinner will be served!

Registration & student ID required. Register below.

Trip to Mayyim Hayyim Mikveh
2023-11-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Massachusetts
Educational Trip with Ex College

Tufts Hillel is cosponsoring a trip to Mayyim Hayyim with the Tufts ExCollege Class, Judaism and Queerness. This trip will be a tour of the mikveh with an educational program about the open mikveh movement and queering the mikveh

Email natalie.lopez@tufts.edu to secure your spot. Transportation provided.

Diamond Dots and Destress
2023-11-13 19:30 - 20:30 | Massachusetts
Looking for a creative outlet to hyperfocus on? Stop by Hillel to make your own diamond dot keychain. We will have fun fall options to choose from. Hope to see you there!

Rwanda Fellowship GIM
2023-11-15 12:30 - 13:15 | Massachusetts
The fellowship offers an in-depth analysis of Rwandan history, culture, genocide, and reconstruction.

Learn more about the Rwanda Fellowship Excollege class and its accompanied 10-day trip to Rwanda!Join us for a free lunch, hear from previous Coordinators and student Fellows, and be the first to receive the application link!

JWC Bracelets
2023-11-15 20:30 - 21:30 | Massachusetts
We will be making bracelets that will be donated to WHEN. (Women’s Higher Education Now)

Join us for some fun bracelet making, snacks, and time to hangout friends!

Friendsgiving - Gratitude Shabbat
2023-11-17 18:00 - 20:30 | Tufts Hillel-Dining Room, 220 Packard Ave, Medford, MA, 02155
Services and Dinner

Friendsgiving is an opportunity to schmooze and eat yummy food with friends and faculty!

Expect delicious food, a joyous vibe, a communal art project, and the opportunity to share gratitude with old and new friends!

Shabbat dinner is provided compliments of Hillel. If you are on an unlimited meal plan, or have the resources to do so, please allow us to subsidize your meal by using a meal swipe.

Schedule

6:00pm Candle Lighting & Services

7:00pm Kosher Dinner Vegetarian and meat options

Read by the River Book Drive
2023-11-20 08:00 - 2023-12-18 23:00 | Massachusetts
Going home for break? Live nearby? We are collecting children’s book donations for Read by the River, a children’s literacy carnival! We work to promote literacy in elementary school students by organizing an annual reading-themed carnival that welcomes hundreds of children and their families from our local community If you have old children’s books at home, bring them back to campus! Donation bins are located in Hillel and Tisch Library!
